An emergency alert has been issued to help to locate a woman and her newborn son to confirm their well-being.
Clarissa Lynn Dennis, a 37-year-old Indigenous mother from Eskasoni, N.S., is described as as 5′ 4” and 150 pounds with long brown hair and brown eyes.
The alert, issued just after 9 p.m., said she was seen walking near George Street in Sydney early Monday morning.
It was initially reported that she was last seen by her family at a residence in Groves Point, N.S. Sunday at approximately 1:30 p.m.
According to the alert she was last seen wearing black pants, a beige sweater, brown sandals with a hospital blanket wrapped around her 2-day old infant.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Dennis and her newborn son is asked to contact police at 902-563-5151.
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